Stove.



W. E. VAN SYOC.

STOVE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.21. 1914. RENEWED AUG- 9, 1916.

1 ,21 8,9 1 3 Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

W/TAIESSES: IIVVEIVTOR.

A TTOIM'E Y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. VAN SYOC, OF PUEBLO, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 PERRY H.

STREETER, OF PUEBLO, COLORADO.

STOVE.

Patented Mar.13, 1917.

Application filed April 27, 1914, Serial No. 834,736. Renewed August 9, 1916. Serial No. 114,073.

To all whom it may'conoem:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. VAN Sroo, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pueblo, in the county of Pueblo and State of Colorado, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Stoves, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an improvement in stoves and relates in particular to stoves adapted to the burning of refuse, peat, lignite, slack and other low grade fuels, though wood or coal may be employed in it.

The principal objects of my invention are the provision of a stove which shall be simple and economical to construct, which shall have the maximum of radiating surface particularly in the lower portion thereof, and which shall be provided with means for indicating the amount of fuel remaining in the fuel chamber. Further objects and advantages of my invention will later appear in this specification.

In the single sheet of drawings accompanying this application and forming a part hereof Figure 1 is a perspective view of a stove embodying my invention, a part of the front being broken away to disclose the inner parts of the stove; v

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the stove shownin Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the body portion of the stove, showing the cleflector in plan View.

The reference numeral 10 indicates a base which, in the preferred form shown in the drawings, is of a general circular form but provided at suitable intervals with semi-circular projections 11 to accommodate similarly formed portions on the stove body, as will be later described. Legs 12 support the base a suitable distance above the floor and 13 indicates the usual ash pan. The base is provided with an opening 14, one being shown though any convenient number may be employed, which opening is adapted to be closed by a slide 15 extending to the front of the stove where it can be conveniently manipulated. This opening 14 is for the double purpose of permitting the ash to be discharged into the ash pan and for admitting added draft if desired.

The body portion 16 of the stove is also of a general circular cross section and is of size to snugly fit withina bead 17 near the edge of the base. A plurality of lines 18, in

this case shown as lent number may be semicircular corrugations of the metal of five though any convenemployed, are formed as which the body portion is made, these corruthe base.

j acent each flue corrugation, these offsets beations fitting within the projections 11 on The metal of the body portion is refer-ably shaped with slightoffsets 19 ad ing of a depth equal to the thickness of the metal.

Flue closure plates 20, preferably curved on the same curvature as that given the body, lie within the offsets riveted to the bottoms of the 21 in Fig. 1, th low that point. each of the fiues for controlling the draft l9 and are body portion; these closure lates extend to within a few inches of the corrugations, as indicated at us leaving the flues open be- Dampers 22 are provided in allowed the. fire.

A cover '23, preferably dome shaped as shown, closes the body'portion at the top.

Flue continuations cover 111 manner like 241 are formed in the the fines 18, these continuations being located to match on to the opens into each flue nos 18. A pipeconnection 25 at the top continuation and also into the top of the stove.

element may be I prefer to employ a plate 26 (though this omitted and the remaining features of my invention employed alone if desired) which rests on the fuel and from which a rod 2 1n the cover 23.

7 projects through an opening This plate performs two functions: it serves to compress the fuel and to prevent draft therethrough. The rod extending out through the top of the stove forms a convenient means for handling the late-and also serves as an indicator to show the amount of fuel remaining in the stove and when recharging is necessary.

adjacent the bottom of the stove therefrom a short deflector, to the body portion at its top but,

of its frusto-conical shape, is spaced therefrom a short distance at its bottom. The

cated intermediate ottom 21 of the flue closure plate 20 is 10- the top and bottom of the deflector 28.

A draft door 30 is located adjacent the ottom of the body portion and I may, if

desired, place a charging door 31 at a point near the top of the body portion.

Operation.

\Vhen the stove is to be charged with refuse or the like a sliding section 32 of the stove pipe is raised and the cover 23 and the indicator plate 26 removed. The stove, being principally of sheet iron and there fore very light may, if desired be carried out of the house for charging; or it may be filled in place if preferred. \Vhen it has been lilled the plate '26 and the cover are replaced and the section 32 slid down to close the stack. The fire is then lighted through the door 30 and a good draft. allowed for starting, the plate 15 being withdrawn if necessary for this purpose. The blaze in the refuse will quickly spread and as ignition becomes general the products of combustion will pass down under the deflector 2S and, circulating within the space between the deflector and the body, will pass out through the nearest flue. As the charge in the stove is burned the plate 26 will lower and the amount which the rod 27 projects above the cover will apprise one of the amount of fuel remaining in the stove. If higher grade fuel, such as wood or coal, is to be burned it may be charged through the door 31, the plate 26 having first been lifted.

Increased radiation surface is provided by my stove in two ways. First: the flues 18 where the hot gases pass out and where the principal heating eifect is produced in stoves of this character, are on the outside of the stove. Second: the gases in circulating throughout the space between the body and the deflector heat the entire circumference of the stove in that portion and thus furnish more heat in the place where it is most desired-near the floor. Further more, access to the lines is made easier for the gases the fuel being held away from the flue openings and the gases having a path out at every point in the circle.

In case the plate 26 is omitted, the con- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. G.

tinuation of the fiues by the passages 24C in the cover is important as the hotgases are thereby prevented from igniting the fuel in the top of the stove, it being desirable in stoves of this sort to have the fire all in the bottom.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a stove, a body portion having a tubular interior and-a: plurality of flues on the exterior thereof, and an imperforate, frusto-couical deflector spaced above the bottom of said body portion, said flues be ing open to the body portion from the bot- (em to a point intermediate the top and bottom of said deflector.

'2. In a stove, a body portion having a tubular interior and plurality of fines on the exterior thereof, and a cover for said body portion also having a plurality of flues on the exterior thereof, the flues on the cover being so placed as to form continuations of the fines on the body portion.

In a store, a body portion having a plu ality of dues communicating with its interior adjacent the bottom thereof but closed from said body portion throughout the remainder of their length, and an inclined, imperforate deflector within said body portion and extending over said flue openings.

In a stove, a base, a body portion having a plurality of flues communicating with its interior adjacent the bottom thereof but closed from said body portion throughout the remainder of their length, and an inclined, imperforate deflector supported on said base but spaced therefrom, said deflector extending over said flue openings.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM E. VAN SYOC.

Witnesses Crmnnns W. ODONNELL, P. H. STREETER.

Commissioner of Patents, 

